It was a Revised Tropical Island (dual land) in near mint condition. And yeah, eBay is a great indicator of their value. Most old cards aren't worth a lot but some (such as dual lands) have skyrocketed in value. And a bunch of random ones are worth a shit ton, I have a card worth almost $400 (one of the "power 9", Ancestral Recall).
Dudes... I had the BEST night last night. I had been about ready to go to bed, when this girl called me and told me I should come over to see her and hang out. I thought about it and went for it. So glad I did! I got there and hung out with her and her roommate. Hilariously, I'm Eric, she's Erica, her roommate is Erick, and her other friend Eric came over for a while too.

I wasn't sure if she did drugs because her profile on Ok Cupid said "Never" to that question, but she has a 3 year old and religious family and I kept getting the feeling she does. So I get there and immediately we start smoking weed. We had 4 people hanging out but we had a lot of conversations between just the two of us, about all sorts of awesome spiritual and universe stuff. She kept asking me if I wanted to walk with her when she went inside. Then at some point the other Eric (with a c) left and her roommate started getting sleepy. We kept talking and then I met her daughter because she woke up. I snuggled big with her dog and cat which she clearly was really into seeing. She kept looking at me with this certain look, I think in a way of like "are you for real right here?" I felt the same way, there was no weirdness or anything, it was like non-stop conversation with almost all agreement on things.
I got over there at like 12:30... before I knew it, it was 4:45, and neither of us wanted to stop hanging out. So we decided to drive to Waffle House and found out we have basically the same car. There were all sorts of really bizarre samenesses between us and aspects of our lives, which were really random and funny and/or cool. We had a great adventure to Waffle House and got all silly playing the jukebox with like 3 other people in there who were like WTF, seriously? At breakfast/dessert/whatever it was at 5am, we started having the classic "first date/just met" conversations... you know, what are you looking for in someone, why a dating site... we both agreed that we want to find someone special but that we're not necessarily looking for anything serious right now (as we're both in divorces) and that there's no point forcing anything, better to just see what unfolds naturally. It's like, I've never been so honest with a woman before, no inhibitions. Then we started talking about psychedelics and, thank god, she is totally into them, though she hasn't had a full trip before thus far. But she has acid and wants to full-on trip soon. I believe she wants to trip with me too, or thinks probably but didn't quite get there to asking, probably wants to make sure first since we did just meet. She told me that I'm the first person from a dating site she's actually met because most seem like creepers, so it's probably a good sign that literally after 1 day of texting she invited me to her house.
After breakfast she was like, tell me if I'm being a bad influence on you but we should stay up and see the sunrise. That sounded awesome to me so I thought of a good place up in the mountains. We drove there, crazy misty mountain drive, talked about a lot more stuff, wished we had brought weed. We talked about a bunch of other stuff we want to do together. Camp, hike, shows, etc. Got up to the place I picked but it was super foggy and also I was a bit wrong about the treeline so the view wasn't too good... so we hiked 10 minutes up a trail to get a better view, in the early, early morning forest. Found a big rock and climbed up on it and sat there and talked a bunch and also just sat in silence comfortably for a while. She dozed off for a few minutes. Finally we left because it was light out and I drove her home. The only slight awkwardness of the whole night came then, saying bye was kinda funny because we both were smiling a lot at each other and kinda hesitating. I mean I wanted to kiss her, a lot, but I didn't... I didn't want to mess anything up. She said "FINALLY, someone who's not a creeper!" I guess she's had some bad experiences meeting guys randomly before. I didn't want to give her any reason to doubt me. I'm glad I went with that because she already just texted me again after she woke up.
I am so attracted to this person you guys. Face, body, personality... it's the trifecta for me. It was like insta-friend, with more in the air. She has the cutest smile and laugh. I am almost sure I'm reading her right and she is also into me as possibly more than a friend, but even if she's not I am still really glad we can be friends. But I certainly do hope more develops.
I'm just like, whoa, did that really happen? When I woke up after napping this morning I had this brief moment where I thought it was a dream and I felt a huge disappointment, then I realized it wasn't a dream and I smiled.
